Fifty years after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, thousands gathered today in Washington, D.C. and around the nation to commemorate the anniversary of Dr. King’s speech and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

At 3 P.M., marking the moment when Dr. King urged Americans to “let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire” to “every hill and molehill of Mississippi,” bells were rung around the country at anniversary celebrations. New Hampshire Humanities coordinated bell ringing events throughout the state, joining celebrants at more than 300 locations around the globe. Bells rang out in locations such as Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, Topeka, Kansas, Stone Mountain, Georgia, and Katmandu in Nepal, while, in Washington D.C. relatives of Dr. King rung the bell that hung in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama before it was bombed in 1963.